What's That You Said? IILanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Here are some well-known expressions rewritten into "Cliff-ese". For those of you who don't know what that means, he was a very wordy person on the TV show "Cheers" and never used a small word where a larger one would work. Try to figure out the phrases in simpler terms.
1. Projecting short, loud, canine-like noises erroneously toward the top of an incorrect arboreal plant. 2. To subject a slender illumination device to rapid carbonization on its antipodal points. 3. To slay a brace of avian creatures with just a single petrous conglomeration. 4. Like sending dense shelly concretions through the air to fall in front of stout-bodied, artiodactyl creatures. Answer1. Barking up the wrong tree.2. Burn the candles at both ends. 3. Kill two birds with one stone. 4. Casting pearls before swine. Hide What Next?
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